Fame or Shame: TV Shows Discussion Thread

[hellbilly]

Results from the Fame or Shame: TV Shows game located here.

FAME

SHAME

01. Little House on the Prairie (1974)

[hellbilly]

An American classic was put to shame 

Little House on the Prairie (1974)

[JaseSF]

Little House wasn't such a bad show really. It's just not the type of show that will appeal to most who post on this board I suspect.

[JaseSF]

Bumping this up to add additions to Fame or Shame: TV Shows

Hall of Fame

01. The Twilight Zone (1959-1964)
02. The A-Team
03. Beavis and Butt-Head
04. The Golden Girls
05. Tales From the Crypt
06. Cheers
07. Roots
08. Mystery Science Theater 3000
09. Hill Street Blues (1981-1987)
10. Murder She Wrote
11. The Dick Van Dyke Show
12. Roseanne
13. Bonanza
14. Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
15. Whose Line Is It Anyway? (UK Version)
16. The X-Files
17. Cold Case
18. Mythbusters
19. Boris Karloff's Thriller
20. Saturday Night Live
21. Monk
22. Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-1975)

Hall of Shame

01. Little House on the Prairie
02. Law and Order
03. Tales From the Darkside
04. V: The Series
05. The Cosby Show
06. Small Wonder
07. Masters of Horror
08. M*A*S*H
09. Hogan's Heroes
10. Happy Days
11. Home Improvement
12. The Daily Show
13. Knight Rider (1982-1986)
14. Cops
15. Baywatch
16. MXC (Most Extreme Elimination Challenge)
17. Forensic Files
18. The Sopranos
19. The Price is Right (1972-Present)
20. 24 (2001-2010)
21. War of the Worlds (1988-1990)

[JaseSF]

To me, every show listed here is actually pretty good, solid entertainment. The one I least agree with is Tales From the Darkside entering Shame. To me, A-Team is mainly popular from a nostalgia, not quality, framepoint and I think Beavis and Butthead belongs more in the Cartoon Hall of Fame, although the making fun of music videos was its best element IMO. Law and Order to me started off good but soon became too much about topping the shock factor week after week after a while.

[Jack]

I really disliked Tales from the Darkside.  They made it out to be some sort of scary something-or-other, "The dark side is always there, waiting for us to enter, waiting to enter us."  And then they give us Mookie and Pookie or Basher Malone    There were a tiny handful of good episodes, but they were really the exception rather than the rule.

[Mr. DS]

V in the HOS and Golden Girls in the HOF.  I grew up with the Golden Girls, fun show.  I think Estelle Getty made that show happen for me. 

[JaseSF]

The Golden Girls is a fun show and deserves its status as a classic IMO. V: The Series wasn't all bad, it was just a bit of a disappointing follow-up to a great Mini-Series.

[JaseSF]

And Tales From the Crypt creeps its way into the Hall of Fame. Honestly I think with stiffer competition, it wouldn't have got there so easily.

[JaseSF]

The Cosby Show very slowly enters Shame. It really wasn't such a bad show, just a little too idealized (almost like a black version of a 1950s series) for my liking. I did find the little kids on there to be often funny especially when working with Cosby.

[JaseSF]

Cheers slowly but surely enters the Hall of Fame. Personally I always thought it overrated and was pretty much felt indifferent about the show.

[JaseSF]

Small Wonder slowly enters Shame.

[Mr. DS]

I nominated Small Wonder kind of knowing it would be ripped to shreds. 

[JaseSF]

Masters of Horror enters the Hall of Shame with little opposition. I felt the concept was good but the execution was poor as most episodes despite having supposed masters at the helm tended to still disappoint.

[JaseSF]

Roots joins the Hall of Fame.